How to format your references using the Journal of Computer and System Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computer and System Sciences. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

I.C.F. Müller-Wodarg, Planetary science. Exploring other worlds to learn more about our own, Science 312 (2006) 1319–1320.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.J. Schafer, T. Moore, Selective attention from voluntary control of neurons in prefrontal cortex, Science 332 (2011) 1568–1571.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V. Zinchuk, Y. Wu, O. Grossenbacher-Zinchuk, Bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative colocalization results in fluorescence microscopy studies, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1365.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. Shi, S. Ye, A. Alam, L. Chen, Y. Jiang, Atomic structure of a Na+- and K+-conducting channel, Nature 440 (2006) 570–574.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

J. Pevsner, Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

F.C. Billari, T. Fent, A. Prskawetz, J. Scheffran, eds., Agent-Based Computational Modelling: Applications in Demography, Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences, Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Deurveilher, K. Semba, Reciprocal connections between the suprachiasmatic nucleus and the midbrain raphe nuclei: A putative role in the circadian control of behavioral states, in: J.M. Monti, S.R. Pandi-Perumal, B.L. Jacobs, D.J. Nutt (Eds.), Serotonin and Sleep: Molecular, Functional and Clinical Aspects, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2008: pp. 103–131.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Computer and System Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, The Rise Of Border Fences Across Europe And Asia Has Unintended Consequences For Wildlife, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-rise-of-border-fences-across-europe-and-asia-has-unintended-consequences-for-wildlife/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Executive Guide: Leading Practices in Capital Decision-Making (Superseded by AIMD-99-32), U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G. Ethridge, Determining the variables that contribute to job tenure for people with psychiatric disabilities participating in an evidenced-based supported employment program, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2012.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

M.K. Schilling, Mother of Invention, New York Times (2017) M2114.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Syst. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0022-0000
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Networks and Communications Applied Mathematics Theoretical Computer Science